This is the second volume in a four-volume set which scrutinizes the relative well-being of students throughout the world. Other topics studied in the series include life satisfaction, employment, finances, housing and transportation. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540976660 20160528
What makes people satisfied or happy with their lives or with particular features of their lives? In his attempt to answer these questions, the author has applied his Multiple Discrepancies Theory to study the satisfaction and happiness of university graduates in more than 20 countries. The project aims to explain global satisfaction and happiness as well as satisfaction in 12 domains - health, finances, family relations, paid employment, friendships, housing, living partner, recreation activity, religion, self-esteem, transportation and education. The forthcoming volumes of this survey will present detailed analyses for every domain, country and university and for whole groups, males and females. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540974604 20160528
Based on the multiple discrepancies theory, this study maintains that the measurement of life satisfaction is a function of seven perceived gaps that focus on comparisons between one and one's neighbours. The data for these volumes is drawn from over 18,000 university age people all over the world. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540979487 20160528
Based on the author's Multiple Discrepancies Theory, this study maintains that the measurement of life satisfaction is a function of 7 perceived gaps that focus on comparisons between one and one's neighbours. The author also uses a point system model that tabulates aspects of satisfaction in specific domains to determine overall life satisfaction. The data-set for this and other volumes consists of over 18,000 surveys of university-age people drawn from 39 countries - the second largest international study ever conducted. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540979494 20160528

v. 1. Life satisfaction and happiness.

v. 2. Family, friends, living partner and self-esteem.

This is the second volume in a four-volume set which scrutinizes the relative well-being of students throughout the world. Other topics studied in the series include life satisfaction, employment, finances, housing and transportation. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540976660 20160528
What makes people satisfied or happy with their lives or with particular features of their lives? In his attempt to answer these questions, the author has applied his Multiple Discrepancies Theory to study the satisfaction and happiness of university graduates in more than 20 countries. The project aims to explain global satisfaction and happiness as well as satisfaction in 12 domains - health, finances, family relations, paid employment, friendships, housing, living partner, recreation activity, religion, self-esteem, transportation and education. The forthcoming volumes of this survey will present detailed analyses for every domain, country and university and for whole groups, males and females. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540974604 20160528
Based on the multiple discrepancies theory, this study maintains that the measurement of life satisfaction is a function of seven perceived gaps that focus on comparisons between one and one's neighbours. The data for these volumes is drawn from over 18,000 university age people all over the world. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540979487 20160528
Based on the author's Multiple Discrepancies Theory, this study maintains that the measurement of life satisfaction is a function of 7 perceived gaps that focus on comparisons between one and one's neighbours. The author also uses a point system model that tabulates aspects of satisfaction in specific domains to determine overall life satisfaction. The data-set for this and other volumes consists of over 18,000 surveys of university-age people drawn from 39 countries - the second largest international study ever conducted. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783540979494 20160528

College freshman Walter "Gib" Gibson has a "sure thing" date with a very hot and very sex-craved blonde across the country in LA. Crossed by fate--and the ride-share bulletin board--Gib makes the trip with a studious and abrasive coed. But as they overcome every obstacle, from show-tune-singing simpletons and bad weather to leering truck drivers and worse luck, their temperaments change and Gib realizes that the only sure thing is that losing the real thing would be the worst thing of all!

College freshman Walter "Gib" Gibson has a "sure thing" date with a very hot and very sex-craved blonde across the country in LA. Crossed by fate--and the ride-share bulletin board--Gib makes the trip with a studious and abrasive coed. But as they overcome every obstacle, from show-tune-singing simpletons and bad weather to leering truck drivers and worse luck, their temperaments change and Gib realizes that the only sure thing is that losing the real thing would be the worst thing of all!

Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that the limited resources of colleges and students need not diminish the undergraduate experience. "How College Works" reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's collegiate success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. At a liberal arts college in New York, the authors followed a cluster of nearly one hundred students over a span of eight years. The curricular and technological innovations beloved by administrators mattered much less than the professors and peers whom students met, especially early on. At every turning point in students' undergraduate lives, it was the people, not the programs, that proved critical. Great teachers were more important than the topics studied, and even a small number of good friendships--two or three--made a significant difference academically as well as socially. For most students, college works best when it provides the daily motivation to learn, not just access to information. Improving higher education means focusing on the quality of a student's relationships with mentors and classmates, for when students form the right bonds, they make the most of their education. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780674049024 20160612

Introduction: the search for a solution

Entering

Choosing

Interlude: the arithmetic of engagement

Belonging

Learning

Finishing

Lessons learned.

Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that the limited resources of colleges and students need not diminish the undergraduate experience. "How College Works" reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's collegiate success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. At a liberal arts college in New York, the authors followed a cluster of nearly one hundred students over a span of eight years. The curricular and technological innovations beloved by administrators mattered much less than the professors and peers whom students met, especially early on. At every turning point in students' undergraduate lives, it was the people, not the programs, that proved critical. Great teachers were more important than the topics studied, and even a small number of good friendships--two or three--made a significant difference academically as well as socially. For most students, college works best when it provides the daily motivation to learn, not just access to information. Improving higher education means focusing on the quality of a student's relationships with mentors and classmates, for when students form the right bonds, they make the most of their education. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780674049024 20160612